Michael Schumacher's 2001 Monaco -winning Ferrari breaks record as it sells for whopping £13.4MILLION at auction
LEGENDARY racing driver Michael Schumacher's Monaco-winning Ferrari has sold for a staggering £13.4million.
Schumi raced the F2001 to victory twice in 2001 - including the famous Monaco Grand Prix.
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Chassis number 211 made its final appearance at the 2001 Hungarian Grand Prix where the racing legend qualified on pole position and took top step on the podium.
The icon went on to win the title that year - his fourth of seven - with a records points haul ahead of team-mate Rubens Barrichello.
The F2001's dominance also saw Ferrari take its 11th contructors' title.
The historic motor was sold by RM Sotheby's for an eye-watering £13.43million.
It marks the most expensive of Schumacher's Formula One cars to be sold at auction.
The Ferrari F2001 was a cornerstone of Michael Schumacher and Ferrari's record-setting, multiple Formula 1 World Championship-winning pomp at the turn of the 21st Century," the car's listing reads.
"Chassis 211 holds the remarkable distinction of being the only Ferrari aboard which the German won both the Monaco Grand Prix and Drivers' title in the same season, as the Scuderia clinched the 2001 Constructors' crown.
"A two-time Grand Prix winner with a brace of World Championships to its name, chassis 211 is among the most significant of modern-day race cars."
MICHAEL Schumacher's life was hanging by a thread 12 years ago as medics tried desperately to keep him alive after a tragic skiing crash that left him with horrific brain injuries.
The F1 legend was given the best possible treatment as he was put into a medically induced coma, had his body temperature lowered and underwent hours of tricky operations on his brain.
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Back in 2013, the retired seven-time world champion, and his then 14-year-old son set off on the Combe de Saulire ski run in the exclusive French resort of Meribel.
Footage from his helmet camera revealed he was not travelling at excessive speed when his skis struck a rock hidden beneath the snow.
He catapulted forward 11.5ft and crashed into a boulder head first that split his helmet into two and left him needing to be airlifted to hospital for two life-saving operations.
At one point his family were told to brace themselves for the worst case scenario as the situation was much worse than originally believed.
At the time, medics said Schumacher was likely to stay in an induced coma for at least 48 hours as his body and mind recovered.
But the coma ended up lasting 250 days - more than eight months.
After he woke up in June 2014, he was discharged from hospital and sent to his home in Lake Geneva to get further treatment.
Since then his wife Corinna and his inner circle of friends have expertly avoided almost anything leaking out about his health status.
Only small amounts of information have been released including reports that Schumacher was in a wheelchair but can react to things around him.
In 2019, it was said that Schumacher was set to undergo breakthrough stem cell therapy in a bid to regenerate and rebuild his nervous system.
Renowned France cardiologist Dr Philippe Menasche, who had operated on him previously, was set to carry out the treatment that would see cells from his heart go to his brain.
Following the treatment at the Georges Pompidou Hospital in Paris, he was said to be "conscious", although few other details were given about his state.
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